Speech Motor Control

Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series, Volume 36: Speech Motor Control covers the papers presented at an interdisciplinary conference on Speech Motor Control, held at the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm on May 11 to 12, 1981. The book focuses on the methodologies, approaches, processes, and techniques employed in speech motor control. The selection first offers information on the interdisciplinary challenge of speech motor control and analogies between central motor programs for speech and for limb movements. Discussions focus on regulation of cerebral motor cortex output by afferent input, goal-orientation and voluntary movement, interaction of transcortical and segmental reflexes, plasticity of speech gestures, and the task of the speech motor system. The text then takes a look at speech production mechanisms in aphasia and functional landscapes in the cerebral cortex related to speech, as well as motor errors and phonetic transcription studies and correlational analysis of consonant preferences in infants, languages, and aphasic errors. The publication ponders on functional landscapes in the cerebral cortex related to speech; comment on the partial roles of the cerebral hemispheres for speech; and speech breathing kinematics and mechanism inferences. The text also ponders on the aspects of voice production and motor control, vocal fold kinesiology, and oral mechanoreceptors. The text is a dependable reference for readers interested in speech motor control.

Section I Introduction Opening Remarks The Interdisciplinary Challenge of speech Motor ControlSection II Central Processes Analogies Between Central Motor Programs for Speech and for Limb Movements Speech Production Mechanisms in Aphasia Functional Landscapes in the Cerebral Cortex Related to Speech Comment on the Partial Roles of the Cerebral Hemispheres for SpeechSection III Respiration And Phonation Speech Breathing Kinematics and Mechanism Inferences therefrom Some Aspects of Speech Breathing Physiology Aspects of Voice Production and Motor Control Vocal Fold Kinesiology Some Functional and Histochemical Properties of the Intrinsic Laryngeal MusclesSection IV Articulation Oral Mechanoreceptors The Neuromuscular System of the Tongue Consideration of Bulbar and Suprabulbar Afferent Influences Upon Speech Motor Coordination and Programming Articulatory Targets and Speech Motor Control: A Study of Vowel Production Spatio-Temporal Goals: Maturational and Cross-Linguistic Variables Possible Analogies in the Control of Innate Motor Acts and the Production of Sound in Speech Analogies and Common Features in the Speech and Masticatory Control SystemsSection V Pathology Speech Motor Control and Selected Neurologic Disorders Phonation Types in Dysarthria Some Comments on the Motor Control of SpeechSection VI Concluding Remarks Some Remarks from the Viewpoint of Neurophysiology Some Remarks from the Viewpoint of Speech ResearchSubject Index